英国8岁富翁：网上卖弹球身价愈百万

Harli Jordean is not your average eight year old. While his friends are playing computer games, he is busy liaising with suppliers, buying stock and handling orders for his internet marble empire. The tiny tycoon from London has been running the thriving marbleking.co.uk website for two years.

哈里-乔登不是个普通的8岁小孩，当他的同龄人都在打电脑游戏时，他却在忙着为他的网上弹球公司联系供应商，购货，处理订单。这位来自伦敦的小富翁经营了一个专卖弹球的网站长达两年，生意红火。

The company is now turning over thousands of pounds each year - with orders flooding in from as far away as America. Harli is so busy he's even had to employ his mum and two older brothers to help him cope with the sheer demand for products on his website. But, instead of being overwhelmed, the primary school pupil remains professional and has ambitious plans for the future. Harli said: 'My dream is to have a chain of stores like Hamleys - it will be one of the biggest toy stores in the world but selling all sorts of marbles.

他的这家公司每年年收入可以达到上千英镑，订单也来自世界各地，连美国的订单都有。哈里现在很忙，他不得不雇佣自己的妈妈和两个哥哥来帮他一起处理网上订货要求。不过，小哈里并未被此打倒，反而保持着专业的水准，而且对未来充满斗志。他说，“我的梦想是要开像哈姆利（英国最受欢迎的玩具店）那样的连锁店，它会成为全世界最大的玩具店之一，但只卖各种各样的弹球。”

The excitable entrepreneur kick-started his way to becoming a millionaire when he innocently began trading marbles with friends in the playground. But when some older kids took all his stock, Harli turned to the bank of mum to buy him some more on the net. And after they struggled to find anywhere dedicated to selling Harli's favourite toy, he begged his mum, Tina, to let him start his own site. Within months of launching, Tina was shocked to see orders flooding in - with Harli handling them all on his own.

这位白手起家的百万富翁最初也只是在操场上和朋友们买卖弹球。但后来一些大一点的孩子抢走了他的弹球后，他只得向妈妈求助，去网上买。在母子俩千辛万苦找了很久之后，哈里央求妈妈蒂娜给他建立一个自己的网站。网站开业后几个月，蒂娜就惊奇地发现有大把大把的订单进来，而网站一直只有哈里一个人在打理。

'My thinking was it would be a good way to teach Harli some great life skills and show him responsibility. I never thought it would become so popular - we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.'

妈妈蒂娜说，“我当时就是想，这可以给哈里好好上一课，教会他做事要有担当。我从没想过网站的生意会那么好，我们有时处理订单都忙不过来。”

She added: 'As a boss he is very amenable and has his own ideas of how to do things. He is fiercely ambitious and is very determined and outgoing. Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain's biggest marble shop and open stores around the world.’

蒂娜还说，“哈里是一个非常友善的老板，而且他做事很有自己的想法。他很有抱负，做事果断，开朗外向。有时，他的想法太过于异想天开，我们还要帮他收收心。但他的梦想还是要开英国最大的弹球商店，并在全世界开连锁店。”